Liam Birchley has had a hot run with his juveniles this season and it got a little better at Rockhampton on Sunday when his speedy Dracarys gelding Swift Dragon won the $150,000 Magic Millions Capricornia 2YO Classic (1200m).
Winner of the $500,000 Aquis QTIS Jewel at the Gold Coast last month, he was most recently third in the $125,000 Pat O’Shea Plate at Toowoomba and was sent off as a raging hot favourite with Ryan Wiggins to ride.
He won like a good thing should, cantering home to win by three lengths taking his overall record to three wins from six starts with prizemoney just shy of $430,000.
Swift Dragon was purchased by Birchley’s Bloodstock Solutions for $60,000 at the Magic Millions Capricornia Sale from the draft of Ellay Bloodstock and is the first winner for Tay Swift, a winning Rothesay mare from stakes-winner Perfect Feeling.
Tay Swift is married to Oakwood Farm based Dracarys and has a yearling colt by him and was covered by him again last spring after missing the previous year.
From limited opportunities, Dracarys has sired 39 winners highlighted by two stakes-winners including the Hong Kong based Storm Rider, who is his only runner in that region.
Dracarys topped the 2026 Magic Millions Capricornia Sale at Rockhampton on Sunday with the Telemon Stud consigned colt from Grey Mink selling to Liam Goody for $105,000 – click here for all the sale results.
The price was a record for this sale.
Dracarys covered 65 mares last spring at a fee of $9,900, which was up on 37 the previous year.
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